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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Agnes born?

2. How is Natan murdered, as described in Chapter 3?

3. Who catches Agnes looking at the silver brooch in Chapter 3?

4. What is the most accurate advice Reverend Toti's father gives him about making the right decision to advise Agnes?

5. What is the real reason Roslin visits her friend, Margret in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Agnes respond to Reverend Toti's initial comments about prayer and absolution?

2. Agnes thinks, "Here, man. Here is your smile. Is it a good one? Do you see my lips crack? Do you see my teeth" (39)? Why would she say this to an officer?

3. Why would Reverend Toti's father not be supportive of him being Agnes' spiritual advisor?

4. How is Reverend Toti's relationship with his father in relation to his time spent with Agnes?

5. Why might Agnes say, "What a person does, and to know a person is, very different thing" (103)?

6. What does Agnes mean when she says that people did not see her; they see two dead men in a burning farm with a knife?

7. How does Agnes argue with Reverend Toti about the meaning of 'truth'" (126)?

8. Why does Margret point out the ravens in the sky to Reverend Toti?

9. How does Reverend Toti view Agnes upon their first meeting?

10. How does Margret view Agnes while she is cleaning her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How and why does Margret Jonsdottir's opinion of Agnes progress over time? List specific examples of how she feels once Agnes arrives and then when Agnes is preparing for her execution.

Essay Topic 2

Paraphrase the following quotes and examine what they say about the human condition. What does a person want from life and what is lacking?

(Agnes) "I expected him (Reverend Toti) to understand me from the start. I want him to understand me, but I'm a fool to think we speak the same tongue. I may as well be talking to him with a stone in my mouth, trying to find a language that we both understand" (115).

(Agnes) "Toti wishes to hear about my family, but what I have told him has not been what he wants to hear. He must not be used to gnarled trees that grow in this valley, where the branches rope about one another, studded with thorns" (115).

Essay Topic 3

Considering this narrative takes place in the 1800s, stereotypes of women are strongly represented. How are women seen and are these opinions accurate? List four quotes about women and establish the inferences that are made if they are not directly stated.

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